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“Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”

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Cyprian, an early 3rd-century Christian theologian and bishop, is believed to have died on September 14, 258. He is considered one of the early Latin Church Fathers and is known for his contributions to Christian doctrine and morality. more

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